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Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.

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Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. (1773)
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Names_Fungi record source Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. 1773

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Rottb.
Rottb.
1773
ICN
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
species
Cyperus polystachyos

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
polystachyos

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.

Densely tufted annual to perennial. Stems to 50 cm tall, 3-angled, leafy at base. Leaves < stems, 2-3 mm wide, smooth; sheaths purple-brown, sometimes with a few transverse septa. Involucral bracts 3-6, leaf-like, > inflorescence. Inflorescence capitate or with rays to 4 cm long. Spikelets ± stiffly erect in rather dense clusters, narrow-linear, acute, ± 15 × 1.5 mm. Glumes ± 2 mm long, densely imbricate, membranous, subobtuse, chestnut or straw-coloured with green keel. Stamens 2. style-branches 2. Nut ± ½ length of glume, oblong, compressed-biconvex, brown.

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Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
(2010)
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Dai, L.-K.; Tucker, G.C.; Simpson, D.A. (2010)
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
(2010)
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Dai, L.-K.; Tucker, G.C.; Simpson, D.A. (2010)
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
Govaerts, R.; Simpson, D.A. et al. (2007)
Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

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American Samoa
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Australia
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Queensland
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China
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Cook Islands
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Cook Islands
Manihiki
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Cook Islands
Palmerston
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Cook Islands
Penrhyn
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Fiji
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French Polynesia
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Niue
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Tonga
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Tuvalu
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United States
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Cook Islands
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9b9c271c-5e6b-449e-9b0a-21537cf3ee94
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1 January 2000
11 April 2016
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